REST

How I explained REST to my brother

1. *Who is Roy Fielding? A guy that helped write the first web servers and did research on why the web works the way it does.

2. Why don’t the techniques that we use today work well when we need to be able to talk to all of the machines in the world? Because the techniques today are used primarily to get information off of a small amount of machines.

3. What is the HTTP protocol that Fielding and his friends created? The HTTP protocol applies the right ‘verbs’ to the right ‘nouns’ in a request to a site. In this case verb would be an action being applied to the nouns, which would here mean URL.

4. What does a GET do? It requests information from the specific database to be displayed on the webpage.

5. What does a POST do? POST is the process of one system adding something to another system

6. What does PUT do? Put is the process f a system replacing something in another system.

7. What does PATCH do? PATCH is similar to PUT, but is only a partial update.

Geocoding API: API acquired.

Weatherbit API: API acquired.

Yelp: Need more information on project to fill out application for API key

Movie DB: Need more information on project to fill out application for API key